Articles by Grist staff

I'm Going to Pop You One

More than 120 countries are slated to meet in December in South Africa for a final meeting to draft a global treaty restricting the production of 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs). At high doses, POPs — which include pesticides, many industrial pollutants, and PCBs — are deadly toxic, and at low exposures, they have caused […]

Carol Cox, Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment

Carol Cox is the grant compliance specialist at PRIDE, which works to clean up rivers and stop illegal dumping of trash in Kentucky. Monday, 27 Nov 2000 SOMERSET, Ky. Today, I want to give you some background information about Personal Responsibility In a Desirable Environment (PRIDE). Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers (R-Ky.) and James Bickford, the […]

That Sinking Feeling

International climate talks in The Hague, Netherlands, collapsed on Saturday, with U.S. and European negotiators unable to agree on a plan for reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Two weeks of negotiations were intended to flesh out the details of the Kyoto climate change treaty, but in the end the Europeans rejected a plan that […]

Delhi Order: Hold the Pollution

Thousands of workers and factory owners took to the streets in New Delhi, India, last week following an order by the Supreme Court to shut down polluting factories in residential sections of the city, one of the most polluted metropolitan areas in the world. After two days of protests, three deaths, dozens of injuries, and […]